Well, Florida, how did the first day of NL/$5limit games treat you?

[rjbigfish]

Melbourne decided to play the $1/$2 NL game with 3 blinds. A $1 small blind and 2 $2 big blinds. The reasoning behind this was so that if the pot was folded around there would be a flop with $5 minimum in the pot and they can take out a $1 rake at that point. This to me seems rediculous because they could deal this game for hundreds of hours and maybe see a handful of hands that it gets folded around. One other major flaw in the game structure is you could not rebuy unless you were felted. You have to buyin for $100 and play with what you have unless you got up or went bust.

For the record they had $1-$5 stud with a $1 ante and $1 bring in. $1/$2 holdem, $2/$4 holdem, straight $5 holdem and the $1/$2 $100 min and max buyin NL holdem games spread. They were running single table tournys and had a $200 + $35 multi table that had 53 people I believe in it. The takout on their tournys has gone down considerably in percentage, they plan on $500+50 and $800+80 multi's in the future so as the buyin increases the takeout moves to 10%.